This should be of interest to anyone wishing to know what the proposed re-design of the museum will look like.
Our speaker is Kirsty Devine and she has supplied the following information
Kirsty Devine is Project Director for Paisley
Museum Re-Imagined and leads the team to redevelop the Museum over the next
five years. She has over 20 years’ experience of working in the heritage and
cultural sectors in Scotland, the UK and internationally. She has worked on 10
capital projects ranging in value from £5m to £270m. Her experience
predominantly relates to museum projects such as The Riverside Museum, The
Burrell Collection, The Royal Alberta Museum, Canada and The D-Day Museum,
Portsmouth but also includes historic buildings such as The Citizens Theatre and
Durham Cathedral. As the Riverside Museum Project Senior Curator she worked on
the project from inception to opening and was responsible for the delivery of
all research, content and interpretative elements. Riverside won the European
Museum of the Year 2012 and received £21.6m, which was the largest ever HLF
grant awarded in Scotland. She has also worked with museums in North America
and China and in 2013 curated the exhibition A Tale of Two Cities, in
partnership between Historic Environment Scotland and Nanjing Museum, China.
This was the first co-curated temporary exhibition in China and it subsequently
won the Arts & Business International Award 2014.
Non-members are welcome with the cost being £3.00.
